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Massenet's opera Cendrillon

Pantomime at the Adelphi

Cinderella Christmas exhibit in Minden, Louisiana

The story of "Cinderella" has formed the basis of many notable works:

[edit] Opera

• Cendrillon (1749) by Jean-Louis Laruette
• Cendrillon (1810) by Nicolas Isouard, libretto by Charles-Guillaume Étienne
• Agatina o La virtù premiata (1814) by Stefano Pavesi
• La Cenerentola (1817) by Gioachino Rossini
• Aschenbrödel (1878) by Ferdinand Langer
• Cendrillon (1894-5) by Jules Massenet, libretto by Henri Caïn
• Cinderella (1901-2) by Gustav Holst
• La Cenerentola (1902) by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
• Cendrillon (1904) by Pauline García-Viardot
• Aschenbrödel (1905) by Leo Blech, libretto by Richard Batka
• La Cenicienta (1966) by Jorge Peña Hen
• Cinderella, a "pantomime opera" (1979) by Peter Maxwell Davies
• Cendrillon, children's opera (1994) by Vladimir Kojoukharov

[edit] Ballet

• Cinderella (1893) by Baron Boris Vietinghoff-Scheel
• Aschenbrödel (1901) by Johann Strauss II, adapted and completed by Josef Bayer
• Das Märchen vom Aschenbrödel (1941) by Frank Martin
• Soluschka or Cinderella (1945) by Sergei Prokofiev
• Cinderella (1980) by Paul Reade
• Cinderella (2010) by David Bintley
• Cinderella - A Tragic Tale (2011) by Terence Kohler for Finnish National Ballet, Music by Lera Auerbach
• Cinderella (2012) - Adaptation by Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn

[edit] Ice Show

• Cinderella (2008) by Tim A. Duncan and Edward Barnwell

[edit] Verse

• Assepoester (1981) by Jan Kal

[edit] Theater

[edit] Pantomime

Cinderella debuted as a pantomime on stage at the Drury Lane Theatre, London in 1904 and at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1905. Phyllis Dare, aged 14 or 15, starred in the latter. In 1926, Cinderella was caught on film in the London Palladium, starring Lennie Dean in the lead role.
In the traditional pantomime version the opening scene is set in a forest with a hunt in sway and it is here that Cinderella first meets Prince Charming and his "right-hand man" Dandini, whose name and character come from Gioachino Rossini opera (La Cenerentola). Cinderella mistakes Dandini for the Prince and the Prince for Dandini.
Her father, Baron Hardup, is under the thumb of his two stepdaughters, the Ugly sisters, and has a servant named Buttons, who is Cinderella's friend. Throughout the pantomime, the Baron is continually harassed by the Broker's Men (often named after current politicians) for outstanding rent. The Fairy Godmother must magically create a coach (from a pumpkin), footmen (from mice), a coach driver (from a frog), and a beautiful dress (from rags) for Cinderella to go to the ball. However, she must return by midnight, as it is then that the spell ceases.
A version debuted in the USA at the El Portal Theatre, NoHo in 2010. It was produced by Lythgoe Family Productions of So You Think You Can Dance fame and MPI Entertainment.

[edit] Musical theatre

• Cinderella: The Musical by Landon Parks (book & lyrics) and Ioannis Kourtis (music) is an English language musical stage show written in 2009, and based on the opera Cendrillon by Jules Massenett.
• Cinderella by Rodgers and Hammerstein was produced for television three times:
  • Cinderella (1957) features Julie Andrews as Cinderella, Jon Cypher, Kaye Ballard, Alice Ghostley and Edie Adams (broadcast in color, but only black-and-white kinescopes exist today).
  • Cinderella (1965) features Lesley Ann Warren as Cinderella, Stuart Damon as the Prince, Ginger Rogers as the Queen, Walter Pidgeon as the King, Celeste Holm as the Fairy Godmother and Jo Van Fleet as the Stepmother.
  • Cinderella (1997) features Brandy as Cinderella, Paolo Montalbán, Whitney Houston, Whoopi Goldberg, Victor Garber, Bernadette Peters, and Jason Alexander.

The Rodgers and Hammerstein version has also been staged live at times. A successful version ran in 1958 at the London Coliseum with a cast including Tommy Steele, Yana, Jimmy Edwards, Kenneth Williams and Betty Marsden. This version was augmented with several other Rodgers and Hammerstein's songs plus a song written by Tommy Steele, "You and Me" which he sang with Jimmy Edwards. Bobby Howell was the musical director. A 2005 version featured Paolo Montalbán and an ethnically diverse cast, like the 1997 TV version. Broadway Asia Entertainment produced a staged International Tour starring Lea Salonga and Australian actor Peter Saide in 2008.

• Mr. Cinders, a musical which opened at the Adelphi Theatre, London in 1929. Filmed in 1934
• Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim (1988), in which Cinderella is one of many fairy tale characters who take part in the plot. This is partly based on the Grimm Brothers version of "Cinderella," including the enchanted birds, mother's grave, three balls, and mutilation and blinding of the stepsisters.
• The Return of The Glass Slipper by Mary Donelly
• Cinderella by Kate Hawley is written in the style of British pantos.
• Cindy, a 1964 Off-Broadway musical composed by Johnny Brandon
• Золушka (or Zolushka), a 2002 made-for-TV Russian pop musical
• Cinderella (2007), a pantomime written by Stephen Fry for the Old Vic Theatre
• Cinderella the Musical (2008), features J-Pop group Morning Musume and the Takarazuka Revue
• Cinderella Sillyious Musical (2008/09), a musical comedy produced by Ross Petty for the Elgin Theatre Toronto
• If the shoe fits (2011) Riverside Theater Guild
• Cinderella the Musical "Moscow operetta"
• Twice Charmed: An Original Twist on the Cinderella Story, is a Broadway-style show on the Disney Magic, one of the ships in the Disney Cruise Line.

[edit] Films and Television

Over the decades, hundreds of films have been made that are either direct adaptations from Cinderella or have plots loosely based on the story. Almost every year at least one, but often several such films are produced and released, resulting in Cinderella becoming a work of literature with one of the largest numbers of film adaptations ascribed to it.

• Cinderella (1899), the first ever film version, produced in France by Georges Méliès.
• Cinderella (1911), a silent film starring Florence La Badie
• Cinderella (1914), a silent film starring Mary Pickford
• Aschenputtel (1922) silhouette shadow play short by Lotte Reiniger.
• Cinderella, an animated Laugh-O-Gram produced by Walt Disney, first released on December 6, 1922. This film was about 7.5 minutes long.
• A Kick for Cinderella (1925), a Bud Fisher animation featuring Mutt and Jeff.
• Cinderella (1925), a Walter Lantz animation in the Dinky Doodle series.
• Poor Cinderella (1934), a Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop
• Cinderella Meets Fella, (1938), a Merrie Melodies animated short film featuring Egghead, the character who would eventually evolve into Elmer Fudd, as Prince Charming.^[10]
• First Love (1939), musical modernization with Deanna Durbin and Robert Stack
• Cinderella (Зо́лушка) (1947), a Soviet musical film by Lenfilm studios, starring Erast Garin and Faina Ranevskaya
• Cinderella, (1950) a Disney animated feature released on February 15, 1950, now considered one of Disney's classics as well as the most well-known film adaptation. A direct-to-video sequel, Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, was released in 2002. A second direct-to-video sequel Cinderella III: A Twist in Time was released in 2007.
• Aschenputtel (1955), West German film, dubbed into English and released in the USA in 1966 as Cinderella.
• The Glass Slipper (1955), feature film with Leslie Caron and Michael Wilding
• Cinderfella (1960), notable in that the main character is a man, played by Jerry Lewis
• Cinderella (1965), Rodgers and Hammerstein musical starring Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Lesley Ann Warren, and Stuart Damon. Written by Joseph Schrank.
• The story also inspired an episode of The Flintstones entitled, Cinderellastone, which originally aired on October 22, 1964. In it, Fred, mad because he was not invited to Mr. Slate's party, dreams he is Cinderella (complete with a Fairy Godmother voiced by June Foray) and goes to the party. The next day, he gets a big promotion and finds that he wasn't invited due to a clerical oversight.
• Popelka (Cinderella, 1969), a Czech musical film
• Hey, Cinderella! (1970), a 60-minute film produced by the Jim Henson Company. This comedy version features Jim Henson's trademark Muppets (including a small role by Kermit the Frog).
• Sinderella Kül Kedisi (1971) Turkish film with Zeynep Değirmencioğlu
• A number of Cinderella-based skits from The Electric Company, with Judy Graubart as Cinderella, Rita Moreno as the Stepmother, two Short Circus girls as the Stepsisters and Hattie Winston as the Fairy Godmother.
• Tři oříšky pro Popelku / Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel (Three Nuts for Cinderella; known in the UK as Three Gifts for Cinderella), a Czech-German movie released in 1973
• The Slipper and the Rose, a 1976 British Sherman Brothers musical film starring Gemma Craven and Richard Chamberlain.
• Cinderella, a 1977 American erotic musical comedy starring Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith, Brett Smiley and Sy Richardson, directed by Michael Pataki
• Cindy (1978), made for television
• Zolushka, a 1979 musical Soviet animated film.
• The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin (1981), an Oscar-nominated animated short from the National Film Board of Canada^[11]
• Fresh (1985), a music video for the song by Kool & the Gang features a Cinderella theme.
• Working Girl (1988), starring Melanie Griffith, a reworking of the Cinderella story, set in corporate America.
• Hello Kitty's Cinderella (1989), an anime short film starring Hello Kitty, was released in Japan.
• Hello Kitty - Cinderella was released in the U.S. as part of the Hello Kitty and Friends anime series.
• Ashpet: An American Cinderella, a 1990 Southern "Appalachia" version of the story, adapted from the Brothers Grimm, starring Louise Anderson and directed by Tom Davenport.
• If the Shoe Fits (1990), modern take on the Cinderella story set in France starring Rob Lowe and Jennifer Grey
• Cinderella (1994), produced by Jetlag Productions and distributed by GoodTimes Entertainment, premiered on video.
• Cinderella Monogatari (1996) Japanese Anime version of Cinderella. Consisted of 26 episodes.
• Cinderella (1997), Rodgers and Hammerstein musical starring Brandy Norwood as Cinderella, Whitney Houston as Fairy Godmother, Bernadette Peters as the Stepmother, Jason Alexander as Lionel the valet and Whoopi Goldberg as the Queen. Remake of 1957 and 1965 TV films.
• Ever After (1998), starring Drew Barrymore, a post-feminist take on the Cinderella myth.
• Cinderella (2000), a British television film production set in mid-20th century and starring Kathleen Turner
• Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (2002), A look at the classic "Cinderella" story from the perspective of one of her 'ugly' stepsister adapted from Gregory Maguire's book of the same name^[12]
• A Cinderella Story (2004), a modernization featuring Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray
• Ella Enchanted (2004), a modernistic comical adaptation featuring Anne Hathaway and Hugh Dancy
• Cinderella Man (2005), an American drama film about the life of heavyweight boxing champion James J. Braddock starring Russel Crowe.
• A segment of the 2005 Turkish anthology film Istanbul Tales made up of five stories based on popular fairy tales is based on this tale in which Cinderella is a prostitute
• Cinderelmo, a Cinderella story featuring Sesame Street's Elmo and Keri Russell
• Happily N'Ever After (2007)
• Year of the Fish (2008)
• Another Cinderella Story (2008) starring Selena Gomez and Drew Seeley
• Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale (2010) starring Sterling Knight and Ashlee Hewitt
• Grazilda (2010), a Philippine TV series. It tells the story of Cinderella but its focused on what happened after happily ever after.
• A Cinderella Story: Once Upon A Song (2011) starring Lucy Hale. A modern day story about Katie (Cinderella), her music, and her Prince Charming.
• Grimm (2012): A TV series featuring modern adaptations of classic fairy tales, the first season episode "Happily Ever After" features a Cinderella-esque storyline where Lucinda, the Cinderella equivalent, is a bat-like Wesen- the creatures of the Grimm series- who has used her sonic powers to attack her stepfamily due to her lack of conscience, forcing her godfather to kill her.
• Rags (2012) An original Nickelodeon movie starring Keke Palmer. The boy named Charlie is the " Cinder fella ", his stepfather and two stepbrothers are the stepfamily, his mother is dead like the story, the carriage is a bike, his fairy godfather is a music engineer, the king and the princess are father and daughter who are famous for being a popstar and a music producer of a huge company, and the shoe is a CD.
• Cinderella (2013) starring Amanda Seyfried^[13]

[edit] Books

• Cox M.-R. Cinderella. Three Hundred and Forty-five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap 0’ Rushes, abstracted and tabulated, with a discussion of mediaeval analogues, and notes, by Marian Roalfe Cox. L., 1893.
• Rooth A.B. The Cinderella cycle. Lund: Gleerup, 1951.
• 50 Ways To Retell A Story: Cinderella by Alan Peat, Julie Peat and Christopher Storey: Published by Creative Educational Press Ltd 2010. ISBN 978-0-9544755-5-0.

[edit] Novels

• Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
• Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Garner. In this version, Cinderella is dressed in a gown "woven of silk which was stolen from unsuspecting silkworms" and has all the men fighting to death over her. This enables the women to take over the government and pass the law that women should only wear comfortable clothes.
• Bound by Donna Jo Napoli
• Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire. Maguire's style of writing is to twist fairy tales. In his novel, Cinderella is the spoiled child, whose confinement to the heath is self-imposed after the death of her mother.
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine Ella was put under a spell at birth that forces her to obey any order given to her. An unusual twist as it features the ball only in the last few chapters, dealing more with Ella's struggle against the curse and because the prince (Charmont) knows Ella before the ball but does not recognize her as she is in disguise.
• Cinderellis and the Glass Hill by Gail Carson Levine
• I was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers by Philip Pullman
• Bella at Midnight by Diane Stanley
• Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart
• The Glass Slipper by Eleanor Farjeon
• Phoenix and Ashes by Mercedes Lackey
• Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
• The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey
• Jim C. Hines Princess series of books include Danielle Whiteshore (Cinderella) after her marriage to the prince.
• Ash by Malinda Lo. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults, A Kirkus Best Book for Young Adults & A William C. Morris Award YA Debut Award Finalist.^[14]
• Cinder by Marissa Meyer An alternate take on Cinderella, with androids and Lunars, people from the moon.
• The Other Slipper by Kenechi Udogu A spin-off from the Cinderella story, seen from the point of view of a kitchen help.

[edit] Comic books

• Cinderella appears as a character in Bill Willingham's Vertigo series, Fables. She also appeared in her own spin-off comic, Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love.
• Cinderalla by Junko Mizuno

[edit] Songs

• Cinderella Stay Awhile a song by Michael Jackson from his 1975 album Forever, Michael.
• Cinderella by Firefall, released 1977.
• Cinderella by Vince Gill, released 1987.
• Hey Cinderella (1993) by Suzy Bogguss.
• Cinderella Blue (1994) by Robert Lucas of the band Canned Heat.
• Cinderella Undercover (1998) by Oingo Boingo.
• Snoopfella a song by Snoop Dogg from his album No Limit Top Dogg (1999).
• Cinderella a song by Britney Spears from her 2001 album Britney.
• Cinderella, a 2001 single by Sweetbox.
• Cinderella by Shakaya, released 2002.
• Cinderella a 2003 single by The Cheetah Girls.
• The Glass Slipper by The Dresden Dolls from debut live album A Is for Accident, that first released in 2003 and leaked on the internet in 2009.
• Cinderella by Tata Young from her 2004 album I Believe.
• Cinderella song by Steven Curtis Chapman from This Moment (2007).
• A Cinderella Story by Mudvayne's fourth album The New Game (2008).
• It's Midnight Cinderella by Garth Brooks
• Cinderella Man by Eminem from his album Recovery (2010)
• Romeo and Cinderella from Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA, released in 2010.
• Cinderella Romance by Hatsune Miku
• Cendrillon by Hatsune Miku and KAITO (a retelling of "Cinderella" with a dark twist)
• Cinderella's Curls by Waxing Gibbous.
• Not Your Cinderella by Catherine Britt
• Stealing Cinderella by Chuck Wicks
• C\C (Cinderella\Complex) by High-King
• Cinderella 신데렐라 by Korean pop singer Seo In-Young
• Cendrillon (The French name for Cinderella) by French rock group Téléphone
• Rindercella by Archie Campbell
• Cinderella by Sajjad Ali
• 21mi made no Cinderella by Berryz Kobo
• Hadashi no Cinderella Boy by NEWS
• Shi no Butou~Romance of the Cendrillon by Malice Mizer
• Cinderfella Dana Dane by Dana Dane
• Cinderela by the late Portuguese singer Carlos Paião
• Barefoot Cinderella by Hannah Montana
• Cinderella by Damien Burner Blazé Jackson
• Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman
• Cinderella from the Broadway musical 110 in the Shade by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
• Cinderella, Darling from the Broadway musical How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying by Frank Loesser

[edit] Cinderella jumprope song

There is a jumprope song for children that involves Cinderella^[15]:

Cinderella dressed in yellow, went upstairs to kiss her fellow, by mistake kissed a snake, how many doctors will it take? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 etc. (Go to 20 then go down to the next line)
Cinderella dressed in blue, went upstairs to tie her shoe, made a mistake and tied a knot, how many knots will she make? 1, 2, 3, etc.
Cinderella dressed in green, went downtown to buy a ring, made a mistake and bought a fake, how many days before it breaks? 1, 2, 3, etc.
Cinderella dressed in lace, went upstairs to fix her face, oh no oh no, she found a blemish, how many powder puffs till she's finished? 1, 2, 3, etc.
Cinderella dressed in silk, went outside to get some milk, made a mistake and fell in the lake, how many more till she gets a break? 1, 2, 3, etc.

The counting continues as long as the jumper avoids missing a jump. If they do then the counting starts again.
Variations:

Cinderella dressed in yellow, went downtown to meet her fellow (or "to buy some mustard"). On the way, her girdle busted. All the people were disgusted.
(Heard in Jackson Heights, Queens, late 1950s)

Cinderella dressed in yellow, went upstairs to kiss her fellow. how many kisses did she give him?
(Heard in Northern Ireland)

Cinderella dressed in yell'a, went downstairs to kiss a fell'a. Made a mistake and kissed a snake, how many stitches (or "doctors") did it take?"

Cinderella dressed in yell'a, went downtown to kiss her fell'a. How many kisses did he get? 1,2,3 etc. (Heard in Leesburg, Florida, Early 2009)

Cinderella dressed in yell'a, tell me the name of your sweet fella a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z (The jumper runs out when the first letter of their crush or boyfriend/girlfriend's name is called and shouts their name at the same time)